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That's a very good idea, poachers pocket, thank you - best invest in a whistle! My grandad has one from his shooting days - perhaps he'll let me inherit it early...he can keep the flat cap though! Thanks for all your help everyone. Great site with some great photos.

Thanks poachers pocket, I agree he is a handsome boy although I am biased! Anyone got any good recall tips? He is getting better with each off lead experience but he's a lot happier running in packs, and tends to get distracted with bushes and ditches. He by far outlasts our very lazy grey! It's difficult as because he's rescue he's been trained to a different name. We're rarely with a pack, its just our two, and he's long gone whilst the grey gives up halfway.

I don't know, really, all I can say is that is what the rescue where we got him from said, the centre is in very rural Essex and gets a lot of lurchers out of fields, last year they had over 40 in total, a lot of whom were found after large travelling sites were moved on. I don't think he was lost for long as he seemed in fairly good condition in his first photographs. He was fostered for a while as he couldn't handle being in kennels. He really is a wonderful boy, fantastic temperament. I've just been looking up 'merle' (my green-ness always described it as 'marble) and yes, that is exactly w

Thank you, roybo - other than the more obvious big black patches he does have a lot of small spotty black patches and where he is bald on his tummy you can see darker pigmentation spots, like those on my white and black spotted greyhound (complete with 'badger' head). Strangely enough he was found with almost the exact same dog as our greyhound, so it could be that he could be related to a white and black greyhound. He really is the most fascinating colour - black and dark grey inside, grey and almost blue outside in daylight. Does his white bib not indicated bull somewhere, though? So

Hi, am new here, owner of a rescue greyhound and rescue lurcher - after a bit of assistance if possible with the breed mix of my lurcher boy, just purely out of genuine interest as to his background as it's a bit frustrating to know so much about our ex-racer bitch but nothing about our boy. He has a lot of greyhound in him - he's slim at the back, sets off like our greyhound, although has a slightly less graceful run but is very fast, he barks like a lab, in some ways has a head like what I'd call a 'slim' lab, but at some angles can look a little heartshaped, as if there is bull in there